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Message from the exterior / Mark Ruwedel.
Photographer
Ruwedel, Mark, 1954-
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Photographs.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
[London] : MACK, [2016]
©2016
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm
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Marquand Library - Photography
TR655 .R89 2016q Oversize
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Abandoned houses
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California
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Los Angeles
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Pictorial works
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Abandoned buildings
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California
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Los Angeles
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Photography, Artistic
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21st century
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Ruwedel, Mark 1954-
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Photobooks
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Summary note
Message from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the desert's harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses--small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn. Ruwedel examines the desert regions east of Los Angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the lives of anonymous individuals, and the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory. The first section, 'Desert Houses', comprises 68 desert structures, while the second section "Dusk" presents houses photographed after the sun had disappeared over the horizon, now rendered in subdued, dusky tones that suggest both present and absence, and the weight of isolation.
Notes
Also published in a limited edition of 150 copies consisting of 2 hardback volumes, each with a tipped in image, each signed and numbered, and issued in a slipcase; includes a signed and numbered gravure print. Volume 1: 120 pages, 73 tritone plates; volume 2: 56 pages, 26 tritone plates.
ISBN
1910164461
9781910164464
OCLC
953598918
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